QUARTERLY EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Year:2007 | Volume:2 | Issue:7|Papers Count:8

The aim of this research was to compare and study the effectiveness of intensive short-term dynamic (ISTDP) with relationship couple psychotherapy on enhancing mental health and marital satisfaction in a sample of the clients of counseling and psychology center.Forty five couples (30 experimental group, 15 control group) were included in this study. All participants were asked to complete pre-test and post-test Enriching and Nurturing Relationship Issue, Communication and Happiness (ENRICH) and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ).Analysis of the data involved both descriptive and inferential statistics including means, standard deviations, ANOVA and Shefe post Houk test. The results revealed that ISTDP and relational approaches were significantly effective on enhancing couples mental health and satisfaction. ISTDP was also significantly effective on different aspects of mental health including physical, anxiety and sleep. Social function, and depress sings. RCP was alsosignificantly effective on some aspects of mental health including physical, anxiety and sleep, and social function sings. Both ISTDP and RCP were significantly effective on some aspects of marital satisfaction including marital satisfaction, personality issue, relationship, conflict solving, finance management, sexual contacts, child nurturing, family and friends, and religious directions. ISTDP was significantly effective only on ideal distortion and the roles of equalization and RCP was effective only on leisure time and pastoral directions subscales.

The purpose of this study is to find out the relationship between the principals' perceptions of their subordinates and their leadership styles. The subjects on this study were from among the principals and teachers working for the 19 educational zones in Tehran in the academic years of 1382-1383. Using the procedural sampling, some 50 principals and 250 teachers from 5 zones were randomly selected. In this study, the questionnaires on the principals' perceptions of their subordinates and the questionnaires on the leadership styles were used. In order to interpret the obtained data, the following statistics were used: mean, standard deviation, frequency distribution, percentile, percentile rank, and graph. The chi-square was used to answer the hypotheses made in the study and to generalize the results. In general, this study showed that there is a significant relationship between the principals' perceptions of their subordinates and their leadership styles.

Books are important tools for knowledge acquisition. Generally, reading and especially book reading lead to comparative development. So societies should attempt to enhance the quality and quantity of reading among their individuals. The present research was conducted to study the role of university on enhancing student's book reading. Thus 263 students among the total population of Psychology and Education Faculty student's from Shahid Chamran University were selected through a g. cluster sampling. Data was collected by a researcher made so questionnaire which was validated by some experts in the field. Coefficient Alpha method was used to analyze reliability. The questionnaire was approved (a=0.80). Data obtained were analyzed by inferential statistics techniques such as One - Way ANOVA, Pearson Correlation, Spearman Correlation, and Wilcoxon. Results indicated that, in students' point of view, the role of university in enhancing book reading of students is "relatively". Also, the amount of book reading by students is reduced after they enter university. Other Results indicated that there is no significant difference among education, psychology, counseling, and library science student's attitude toward role of university in reading book. Furthermore there is no significant difference between boys and girls in this regard. Also there is not any difference between B.A and M.A student's attitude toward the role of university in book reading. It was not observed any relationship between student's academic achievement and their attitude toward the role of university in book reading. Furthermore the study indicated that there is no relationship between quantity of studying in university and student's attitude toward the role of university in book reading. But we recognized the relationship between academic field interest and student's attitude toward the role of university in book reading.

SUMMERY: This survey has been carried out with the aim of studying the relationship between self-efficiency social support and exam anxiety and the psychological health of men and So women students in Allameh-Tabatabaee University. METHOD: This survey is a correlative one. Being selected by cluster sampling, the participants were 300 undergraduate go students (210 women and 90 men) of Allameh-Tabatabaee University in 2006 academic year. They were evaluated by Sherer self-efficiency questionnaire (1982), social support questionnaire (1986), exam anxiety questionnaire (1996) and Goldberg general health questionnaire (1979). Research data was analyzed via the statistic test of Correlation coefficient and independent t.FINDINGS: These studies showed that there is a relation not only between self-efficiency and psychological health but also between social support and psychological health. Moreover, it revealed that there is no difference between sexes when it comes to self-efficiency average, social support and exam anxiety. Nevertheless, the average of men's' psychological health was significantly lower than that of women.RESULTS: The results generally revealed that self-efficiency and social support are influential in promoting psychological health and also that exam anxiety decreases psychological health.

Objective: This research examined factorial invariance of Child Behavior Checklist by using confirmatory factor analysis.Method: The form was administered on a sample of non-referred students (697 boys and 650 girls) which were selected from primary, secondary and high schools of the city of Tehran. The sample was selected by means of multistage stratified random method. To estimate parameters and fitting a 8 correlated syndrome model, weighted least square (WLS) function was used. The adequacy and fitting the model was assessed by RMSEA, SRMR, CFI, TLI, GFI, and AGFI indices. Results: The findings indicated that Achenbach's 8 correlated factor models have good fit with data. This finding provides evidence about internal construct validity of CBCL. In addition, the results showed none of syndromes overlapped completely, indicating that syndromes were empirically distinguishable and possessed discriminate validity. Conclusion: The results of this study supported fitting of the Achenbach model to our data and CBCL could be used to assess emotional and behavioral problems of children aged 6-18 years.

The purpose of this research was to investigate effectiveness of teaching Differentiation of self in decrease divorced women mental problems. This study is an experimental one with a pre-test and a post - test and a control group. Research society was been 20-45 old divorced women who were became to 14 and 18 areas municipality mental houses. After sampling and doing the pre - test 30 divorced women were selected and randomly placed in two groups (one experimental group and one control group). Experimental group was under teaching for 10 sessions. After finishing the teaching sessions all groups took a post -test. To collect the data two self-report questionnaires were used. 1- SCL90-R questionnaire which includes 90 questions about somatization, obsession-compulsive interpersonal sensitively, depression anxiety, aggression phobia paranoid and psychosis scores. 2- Differentiation of self inventory-revised questionnaire which includes 46 questions that focuses on adults their significant relationships and their current relations with family of origin. The data was analyzed by co-variance analysis and tracing tests. The results of the research showed that this method was effective in increase of differentiation of self and 'decrease mental problems in excremental group.

For the purpose of studying students' mathematics study skills in Shahid Bahonar University, the sample includes 150 students who were selected through randomization method. The questionnaire includes 37 queries and has a total of 6 microtests that estimates 6 factors. After performing and grade the questionnaire students were ranked by excellent, good and poor levels in the view of mathematics study skills. As well in this research the relationship between mathematics. Study skills' grade and demography characteristics such as sex and the field of study had been studied.The findings indicate that generally the mathematics study 5 skills of the students are poor and the existence of a meaningful difference between the grade of males and females in the view of mathematics study skills. Moreover, it also displays a meaningful difference in the average of the students by different fields of study considering some of the micro-tests.